The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-04-07
HERE NJ THERE.

Mosquitoes are already troublesome in man
places in California.
A resident Of Altoona, Pa, owns o spinning
wheel that is over $50 years Old.
A remarkable fail OF snow covers nearly al
England, blocking the roads in many places.
The university library at Cambridge, En-
gland, is to be enlarged at an expense of $50.
900.
Six towns in Windham county, Vermont
have elected women as superintendent O
schools.
Herr Fable, the wise Austrian, who says hi
predicted the recent earthquake, predict
more for April and perhaps a few for May.
A Chinaman who recently left San Fran.
cisco, Cal, on a steamer for home, took will
him his Peruvian wife.
DR.. McCosh hopes to remain at the head o
the Princeton college until it becomes in namf
and in fact, a full-fiedged university.
In Japan paper is made of a substance
known as 'marine alge." 1t is strong and sc
transparent that it can be used in place OF
glass.
John G.. Whittier thinks that if the tagging
fund for the Longfellow memorial Is ever to
be made up it can not be 'done otherwise thar
by vigorous personal solicitation"
In boring a well near Pine Grove, Esmeraldi
county, Nevada, steam of a temperature no
enough to cook potatoes was struck at a deptl
of sixty feet below the surface.
Already thirteen postofIices In this countr,
have been named after Gel. Lamont, Cleve
lands secretary, while Secretary Garland'i
name has been given to only seven.
On one of the principal streets in Thomas
ton, Ga, a physician and a shoemaker occupl
the same building. Over the door is caalket
the sign: 1--WE repair both sole and body"
A New Yorker has invented q musical toy
in the shape of a champagne bottle laterally
divided, and on the inside of the section is /,
violin and strings, on which music can b,
discoursed.
James Taylor, while digging a well on hi
farm near Excelsior, Wis, found in a bed OF
gravel twenty feet below the surface a lot of
beautiful amethysts and one very large and
valuable ruby.
One of the largest stock farms in the world
is that owned by the Powell Brothers, nea,
Springsboro, Pa. 1t covers an area of 2,5G(
acres. The annual horse sales on the place
amount to over $500, 900.
A private telegram from Fort Benton, NJ. T
| quotes the following prices of staples in that
town: Flour, 81 per sack; coal, $50 to $50 per
ton; green willow wood, $50 per cord; pota.
toes not to be had at any price.
A farmer at Ritzville, W. T., sank a well re-
Gently, but instead of striking water he found
an immense underground cavity, from which
a stiff breeze continually blows, accompanied
with the noise like the humming of telegraph
wires.
Russia is enduring with singular fortitudt
the energetic goings-on of Bulgaria, the gov
eminent of which is SO thoroughly hated at
st. Petersburg. The ear is supposed to be in
a state of rage at the shooting of the rebels,
but he has done nothing.
AS a result of the recent decision in Wash.
ington territory, denying the right OF women
to vote, Judge Hoyt, at Tacoma, set aside all
the Chinese conspiracy cases and all the in
dictments in that court which were found BY
a grand jury partly composed of women.
In many parts of France heavy machinery
is run by artesian-well power. The deeper th,
well the greater the pressure. A well a
Grenelle has a pressure of sixty pounds to the
square inch, and the water is so hot that it j.
used for heating the hospitals in the vicinity.
The entire population of Forman, in Sargent
county, Dakota territory, turned out one
morning last week to enjoy the most beauti-
full mirages ever visible there. All the towns
within twenty miles could be distinguished
quite distinctly, and some at q greater dis
lance could be recognized.
The devastation of the grain fields of Ala.
media county, California, by wild ducks and
geese at night set the farmers wits at work tt
keep them away. The best device so far is tc
burn candles here and there over the fields.
They are protected from the wind by sacks,
and have thus far proved eficacious.
The Bibilotheque Rationale, at Paris, is the
largest library in the world. The directors
it contains. The earliest nucleus of a library |
in Fran re was made by the emperor Charlie
magne, and some Of his manuscripts are still
preserved in the present collection.
There is a man in the Yale class of 'SS whose |
great uncle is one of the two oldest living
graduates of Yale, whose father was a gradu-
ate of 81, who has three uncles, four cousins,
and three brothers among tie alumni and
who has several brothers and cousins prepar-
ing for college. His name is not announced.
They have something like the lettre de cache!
in Quebec. When a young man becomes OBJ
slreperous in riotous living and will not listen
to reason, his kinfolk hold a eonsel de tdDsile,
or family council, and 'interdict'' him. He
goes to an inebriate asylum and does moi
emerge until the family deem that he has
learned reason.
During an exciting game of poker IN st.
Paul the other day one gambler bet his wife
as the equivalent for $500 and raised his op-
ponent $3.50. The latter called" found he
held four trays to the others four deuces, and
after raking in the stakes, put on his hat and
ran. He is a bachelor and is said to have
known the lady.
This is the name of a man living in South Caro-
lima: Harmon Dive-Over Jump-UnderC Come |
Hither-to-Me Out-Yonder Go-Fetch-It Jehu
Joshua William Hugh Hall Hiram Harvey XIII
all Jones. This is from a tombstone near Wetum
ka, Ala: Henri Ritz DeIni Ritter Emmi Bit.
ter Sweet Potato Cream Tartar Caroline Bost-
wick, infant daughter of Bob and Sucker Cat